Jul 21, 2016 | Art & Music Outdoors, Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Health & Wellbeing
In the Welsh seaside town of Barry, a place made world famous by the Gavin and Stacey sitcom, lies a typographic traversing wall. It was designed by Gordon Young in association with Part Two – a London-based design consultancy and opened in 2014. Whilst this...
Jul 6, 2016 | Maths Outdoors
Most schools in Scotland have now begun their holidays. Andrea Stevenson, has had an exceptionally busy term. She’s a Canadian teacher, who lives in Aberdeen and has undertaken maths consultancy work on behalf of Creative STAR whilst waiting for her GTCS...
Jun 25, 2016 | Art & Music Outdoors, Community Involvement
This past week, if you have been in the Cruickshank Botanic Garden in Aberdeen, one of the trees – the cut leaf Norway maple – has been decorated as part of a temporary art project. During the past six months, local individuals who access Sense...
Jun 22, 2016 | Community Involvement, Developing School Grounds & Outdoor Spaces, Early Years Outdoors
This week I have had the privilege of visiting the Stramash Outdoor Nurseries. All of the nurseries are noticeably good at making do with free and found materials to create structures and resources for, and with, the children. The approach reminded me very much of...
Jun 14, 2016 | Early Years Outdoors, Play Resources
This is another long overdue blog post. I think I’ve been stopped in my tracks previously as Kierna Corr from Learning for Life has blogged so wonderfully about her milk crates that really there wasn’t much else left to say on the matter 🙂 Anyway, this...
